A social way to find no-fee apartments and roommates (NYC)

Delightful home sharing for roommates and their landlords.

Roof is an app for roommates, renters, and landlords to make life easier for each other. Roommates can use Roof for expense splitting, chore tracking, sharing shopping lists, and paying rent through the app. Landlords can manage their properties, collect rent and handle bookkeeping effortlessly, communicate with their tenants... and lots more.

Play Store

Free

Medium

I wasn't always into the idea of investing in a rental home. I get the appeal-buy a home and you own that asset... one that appreciates! Sell it and get that money back, maybe for huge profit. Live in it, and your money becomes an investment instead of monthly rent payments you won't ever get back.

Medium

Having roommates can be pretty awesome, especially when everyone is on the same page about how you'll share the space. We added Threads to Roof to make the logistics of sharing a home clearer and more interactive, and to unify all of the roommate and landlord tools we had previously made.

Makes it simple to find the best roommates.

Tinder for finding roommates

RentHoop is the best mobile app for finding roommates. We're available on iOS and Android phones!

App Store

Free

Play Store

Free

Nick Abouzeid- Words at Product Hunt ✌️

There's a Tinder for everything...

Paul Burke- CEO and Co-Founder, RentHoop

Thanks for recommending us Nick!

NBC News

From a young age, Paul Burke knew he was going to be an entrepreneur. "In junior high, I used to stuff tons of soda and candy in my backpack and sell it to my friends at school," he told NBC News. "It's just kind of always been in my blood."

KING

A new app is gaining popularity to help people find roommates. It's called RentHoop or as the creator calls it 'Tinder for roommates.' Paul Burke, a 2014 graduate of Western Washington University, came up with the idea in his mom's house in Redmond. He then teamed up with programmers to create the app.

USA TODAY College

Launched this spring by Paul Burke, a graduate of Western Washington University, the app aims to take the guesswork and tediousness out of the roommate-finding process by using the swipe model. Swipe right on potential roommates if you think they'd be a good fit, and swipe left if you'd rather pass.

GeekWire

Fresh out of college, Paul Burke went to hear Zillow and Expedia co-founder Rich Barton speak at a Startup Week event in Seattle. His mother, who also attended, expressed concern to Barton about her son's entrepreneurial ambitions. "Go for it," Barton said, later adding that "he is the most risk-loving and capable of taking risk on in his career at this poin…See more

Freshu

A new app mimics Tinder's format to streamline the process of finding a roommate.

An early warning system for scams and fraud on Craigslist

Cluck crowdsources scam labeling on Craigslist. It gives renters a way to warn others about fraudulent listings.

GeekWire

After spending a couple years working at Zillow as a software development engineer, Joyce Wu thought she had a grasp on what the biggest challenges are when it comes to the housing market. As she set out to start her own company, she learned otherwise. Wu, 33, is the founder of Cluck, a Chrome...

Founders Live

Founders Live Seattle - Congratulations to Cluck for winning the latest Founders Live Seattle pitch event. Cluck - Be safer on Craigslist. Cluck gives Craigslist users a way to warn each other abou...

Lifehacker

Last year my boyfriend and I began our search for a new place in San Francisco. In addition to having an exceptionally competitive and expensive rental market, the city like most others our size also has a huge issue with listing fraud, especially on Craigslist which is still "the place" to find an apartment.